Recipes for Adventure: Healthy, Hearty and Homemade Backpacking Recipes

I found the website first and made some of the recipes for a quick overnight backpacking trip with 3 friends. The recipes were fun and easy to make. I like to mix and match and Glenn's recipes allow you to do that. The big hit of the camping dinner was the pumpkin, chocolate, cherry "pudding", which we all shared. One of the guys had brought his own MH freeze-dried food and ended up hardly using any of it at all because he liked my food better.I loved the simplicity of making the meals, just soak, boil for one minute and let sit for a few minutes...voila!! VERY TASTY FOOD. No simmering for a long time, no sitting around for 20 minutes waiting for something to cook.... Brilliant and easy. This is the best DIY dried meal making book out there. Everything can be dried and dried food weighs significantly less. Meals for two weigh mere ounces. They store well too, so you can make them anytime. Dry your chili! Dry your stew this winter, then bag it up and enjoy it when you are up in the mountains.EDIT: I lent this book to a someone and forgot who, so am buying it again. One thing I like is that he gives serving sizes!! I'm a solo hiker, so I appreciate that feature. I like that he also gives directions for dehydrating all the food in the recipes. You don't need two books, one for dehydrating food and one for the recipes. One cookbook to rule them all!!!!!

The author of this book is obviously well organized, industrious, hard working, adventurous and health conscious. He is not afraid to take up a challenge on the trail or in the kitchen. The activities he suggests in this book require some organization and diligence, but the result is nourishing, healthy, satisfying food that will not spoil. I am not hiking or backpacking these days, but after reading this book, I now have new ways of reducing food waste in my home kitchen. Wasting food is a waste of money and resources, and this book gives lots of ideas on how to dehydrate food for prolonged storage and how to use it. It is obvious that the author has prepared all of these recipes and that they are tried and true, he provides tips and has figured out ways to ensure that the rehydrated foods taste good, I appreciate this. Thank you Chef Glenn for allowing others to benefit from your devotion and diligence in the kitchen.

This is flat out the best backpacker's cookbook I've encountered thus far, and I've read several and scoured the internet as well. In fact, I found this book through the Author's website.My problem with most backpacking cooking guides is that they either use nothing but off the shelf products, or they give you a narrow enough recipe that learning to build off to new recipes is difficult, especially when you're dehydrating your own food.And let's face it. A lot of those recipes make me wonder how desperate these folks get on the trail. Peanut Butter & sour cream with a squirt of soy sauce in a tortilla doesn't sound like an especially appealing meal to me.This book, in a scant 100 pages or so, blows other books I've seen out of the water. Glenn talks about drying staples like veggies, fruit, and meat in the best and most palatable way possible. There's a chapter on punching up instant rice in a box meals. There's a chapter on vacuum packing your meals. There's discussion on serving sizes and before and after comparisons for dehydration. There's everything you need to build your own recipes, and then there are the recipes themselves. The recipes themselves are pretty much all actually appetizing. They're meals I might eat even if I wasn't on the trail. And that's a huge compliment.Finally, there's a chapter on "bark" here, which is basically pureed sauces that beef up your dishes. I'm interested to try them out.In the end, I have to give props for what I consider to be the best camping/dehydrating cookbook I've come across.

Nice set of recipes specifically made for dehydrating meals and some good tips. None of this is "gourmet". So this is really for backpacking - unlike other camping recipe books I've had where you had e.g. fresh meat as an ingredient, not practical to keep in a pack.On the down side, it seems to repeat a lot of the content on his website (OK) but worse, some of the website content was not in the book.

This book is a huge help to people who want to dehydrate specifically for camping and backpacking. Online websites always prioritize dehydrating tips for preppers and homesteaders, which is fine, but this is the best place to start for backpackers and campers wanting to eat cleaner and cheaper on the trail. It has easy to follow instructions on how to dehydrate every kind of food, how to best prepare or fit them into recipes, how to store them, and most importantly, how to make them taste good! Be sure to get the second book, as it has recipes that built off the information in this book!

Too many camping cookbooks claim to have recipes for those who want to "hit the trail" but that's not true. Most of them are really better suited to car camping. Too many elaborate and complicated recipes and too much reliance on loads of ingredients and complicated cooking instructions. Ditch those books they are not well suited to those who hike or canoe for days on end in the backcountry and who need simple easy to prepare yet tasty meals.At the same time the freeze dried one-bag meals available at your local outfitter (while convenient) are often prohibitively expensive for someone who on a 7 day trip might need a minimum of 14 or as many as 21. at 10-15 dollars a meal this adds up quickly.Luckily this book kills two birds with one stone. Lots of information on how to dehydrate your own ingredients at home and assemble them into simple easy to prepare one pot (or FBC) meals.Of particular use are the instructions on how to dehydrate ground beef, chicken and eggs which are really tricky if you don't know some very simple hacks.This book has become my bible for all things trail food related! Worth every penny.

Love, love, love this book, I still use it (4 years since purchase) love the recepies and have used them many many times.

Excellent book; simple clear recipes and information on how to use them on the trail. Really does give meal in a bag information. Also includes excellent information on drying all types of food.

Terrific recipies and hints for dehydrating.

I bought a dehydrator a few years ago mainly for dehydrating fruits and vegetables in season. It worked so well i started thinking about other uses.This year i am planning a longer hike with friends and decided rather than buying all the dehydrated meals I would try making my own. But how to do it? Then i found this little gem. It explains everything you will ever need to know about dehydrating and planning and packing meals for the trail. I love all the pictures so you know what to expect. Basically it is a dehydrating book for dummies, but you won't be a dummy for long. I completely recommend this book to anyone who wants to preserve food in the most natural and way to ensure you keep the nutritional values intact.